Rakudo cygwin make: "no rule to make target 'perl6'"

Peter Schwenn peter at schwenn.com
Wed Feb 11 00:00:11 UTC 2009


You DID fiddle configure.pl to look about until it finds a good
parrot_config.  And the perl6 make works perfectly.  Thank you both.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Jonathan Worthington <jonathan at jnthn.net>wrote:

> Peter Schwenn wrote:
>
>> msysgit does work fine.  Thank you.  --However: when I use the
>> configure.pl inside .../rakudo to generate the makefile for rakudo, I get
>>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> C:\parrot\languages\rakudo>perl configure.pl
>> Reading configuration information from parrot\parrot_config
>> The system cannot find the path specified.
>> Reading configuration information from parrot_config
>> 'parrot_config' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  and I don't know how to express the config argument for "perl
>> configure.pl --parrot-config=(...)" and am not sure what subdirectory or
>> binary I should feed to it anyway.  Perhaps someone could give me an example
>> of how to complete --parrot-config=... .
>>  (I am using the directory structure with rakudo inside of parrot which
>> might be why rakudo/configure.pl can't find whatever parrot_config is.)
>>
> I did patch this up somewhat for Win32 earlier. It should work as you have
> it. However, you may need to (in your c:\parrot) do an "nmake
> parrot_config.exe" to get it to work. (It will still fail to find it in a
> couple of places and spit out warnings, but it should eventually find it and
> spit out a makefile).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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